Elwood Sailing Club, as organising authority, is hosting the 2012 Top of the Bay Interclub Challenge to be held on Saturday 4 February for the following participating clubs: Continue reading
Night Two of the Elwood Windsurfers Twilight Summer Series is this Thursday evening 2nd February – All are welcome followed by Drinks & BBQ (or pizza) at the Club.
1st Night Results : The first night of the Series on 19th Jan kicked off with a strong though brief seabreeze.
3 Points Tony Prysten – came straight from the Airport (back from Sydney), Continue reading
“It is useless to win unless you have also won your opponents’ respect”
Read about : Paul Elvström
The Elwood Windsurfers Twilight Summer Series kicks off for 2012 on January 19, running every Thursday evening through March until the end of Daylight Savings.
Its Windsurfing with a social focus – All are welcome followed by Drinks & BBQ at the Club. Formats will vary night depending on conditions and inclination. Anything from biggest moves and best effort, Le Mans races, Pookhipa expression session.
The annual trophy will be up for ESC members for the most “Meritorious Freesailor” – based on sailor feedback at the Bar afterwards. “Meritorious” is in the sense of “praiseworthy” so the winner on the evening may not always be the most skilful sailor.
TackTracker website links for A Class and 125 races have been added in the left hand column of our homepage under “Sailing Links” just below the Results links. TackTracker shows the course each boat in these classes sailed in their races as captured by GPS units on the boats.
The Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions for the 2011-12 season and Duty Roster for Oct-Dec 2011 have been updated.
Click here to view or via the links under ESC Information list on the left side of our homepage:
Notice of Race 2011
Sailing Instructions 2011
Race Calendar 2011
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The buds are bursting, the days are getting longer, it must be getting close to our 2011/12 season Opening Day!
Join Elwood Sailing Club Commodore John Dodd, Flag Officers, committee members, sponsors, honorary life members and special guests in welcoming in the new season at the clubrooms on Sunday 2nd October from midday for a 12.30 start.
The opening ceremony will be followed by an introduction of new members and a racing information session by Rear Commodore Ken Robinson, before adjourning for a 2pm race start, weather permitting, to be followed by a sausage sizzle after racing around 5pm.
In case of inclement weather the bar will be open from 1pm with sailing DVD’s on the big screen and an early sausage sizzle for all to enjoy.
So come along & join the celebrations!
Please note there has been some changes to the ESC 2011 AGM Notice of Meeting and proxy forms due to the inclusion in General Business of motions relating to requested changes to Sailing Instructions and a presentation on proposed building development of the ESC clubrooms.
The Elwood Sailing Club 2011 Annual General Meeting will be held at the clubrooms on Thursday 1st September 2011 commencing 7.30pm. The bar will be open from 7.00pm , refreshments and finger food will be available after the meeting.
Agenda (in accordance to Rule 9.3)
Attached are updated AGM Notice and Proxy forms;
ESC AGM notice 2011 v2
ESC AGM nomination 2011
ESC AGM proxy 2011 v2
It’s ESC Membership renewal time again!
You will be happy to learn the General Committee has reviewed the club’s financial position and decided that there will be no increases in any annual membership subscription fees for the upcoming season.
As a new prompt payment incentive for members to pay their annual subscription fees by the due date of 30th June 2011, all members who have their annual fees received by the club by the due date will go into a raffle to be drawn at the AGM, the prizes being for three members to receive a full refund of all their annual subscription fees paid. This will replace the $50 prompt payment discount previously offered to Family and Senior members only.
Attached is a covering letter from ESC Commodore John Dodd and the 2011/2012 Membership Renewal Form. Payment may be made by Cash deposit to bank, Cheque, EFT and now payable by PayPal and Credit Card via the Online Membership Renewals page on our website